Premiers don't have to be patsies on tax reform

By Richard Denniss
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:06pm, first published April 24 2015 - 8:45pm

The Earth is flat, climate change is a conspiracy and the only way to collect more money for the states is to collect more money via the GST. How did the nonsensical belief that the GST is the one and only source of commonwealth revenue that can be transferred to the states come to be so widely accepted?

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